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Meteorite Rain in Costa Rica | | | |
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 | | | This meteorite from the fall at Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica, in April hit a doghouse. Luckily, the dog - Rocky - was unharmed. Image via Michael Farmer/ASU. | | |
| | | | Martian sands move in unearthly ways | | | Mars is a desert world, with sand dunes similar to those on Earth. But the processes that create them can be quite different from those on our planet, according to a new study from the University of Arizona. Read more. | | | | | | | |
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|  | | | Keep watching … Young moon, Mercury, Mars | | Notice that the lighted face of tonight's moon is pointing in the direction of Mars and Mercury. In both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, June 2019 presents a fine apparition of Mercury in the evening sky. On these early June evenings, Mercury is some 5 times brighter than a 1st-magnitude star and 10 times brighter than Mars. Read more. | | | | | |
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 | | | Meteor Crater, Arizona | | Joe Neeley captured the Milky Way over Meteor Crater, Arizona, on June 1, after holding a 2nd annual photography night at the crater last weekend. He wrote: "This is a composite of 2 panoramas, one for the sky and one for the foreground, blended together. The glow in the center is the light from the town of Winslow, Arizona." Read more. | | |
